Alvah Miller
Nicholas Biddle Kittel (Columbia, New York 1822 - New York 1894)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1862 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
920 x 760 mm
Place of origin
New York
Order this imageCollection
Greenway, Devon
NT 120696
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Alvah Miller by Nicholas Biddle Kittel (Columbia, NY 1822 - New York 1894), signed lower right, on the arm of the chair, in red: Kittel.1862. A portrait of a Agatha Christie's paternal great-grandfather, half-length, seated in a red velvet armchair, with hands in lap, with fingers laced together, towards left, facing, with a beard and wearing a dark jacket.
Provenance
Commissioned in New Hampshire in 1861/2; by descent until given by Mrs Rosalind Hicks, Anthony Hicks and Mathew Prichard, 2006
Credit line
Greenway, The Prichard/Hicks Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Nicholas Biddle Kittel (Columbia, New York 1822 - New York 1894), artist